Does This Motherboard Support NVMe SSDs?

[Lemarsghast]

I am still planning on building my long delayed desktop. I recently switched my gaze on an Asrock motherboard that currently has a huge discount for Black Friday. I also want to implement a NVMe m.2 ssd as a boot drive. Does this motherboard support that? Here is the link to that mobo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157543&ignorebbr=1


And if needed, here is the ssd:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147466

Thanks

 

[glamdringfh]

It isn't on the current support list because the 950 Pro JUST came out, but your motherboard does support M.2 SSD's so I think you'll be fine.

Current list of supported drives: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99%20Extreme4/?cat=Storage

 

[Lemarsghast]

It isn't on the current support list because the 950 Pro JUST came out, but your motherboard does support M.2 SSD's so I think you'll be fine.

Current list of supported drives: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99%20Extreme4/?cat=Storage

Thanks for that list, I did not even know it existed.

As for the SM951 because it turns out that it is cheaper than the 950 pro I might get that, but on Newegg it said that the SM951 supported PCIe 3.0 and on the list it said that the SM951 supports PCIe 3.0 x4. Which one is correct?

 

[glamdringfh]

They are both saying the same thing, the x4 on the list was referencing the PCIe lanes, not the type of socket itself. The SM951 will work just fine on your board.

 

[Lemarsghast]

They are both saying the same thing, the x4 on the list was referencing the PCIe lanes, not the type of socket itself. The SM951 will work just fine on your board.

Thank you for your help